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Apple Employee Discount

NoShoreGuy said:
Question, does anyone know if an Apple employee can let their friend use their employee discount to buy a MBP?
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There is a program that Apple Employees can use to purchase item for Friends and Family. This is not the same discount they can get for personal items. They have lots of rules about purchasing items for personal use. They can't get personal items for family or friends or for gifts and there is usually a hard limit of 1 per year.

The F&F program is where they would buy an item for a friend, but I don't think you can return items but the discount is good.
 
Apple Discount

Ok, lets set the record straight. There are 3 discounts regularly offered besides things like quarterly specials and in store discounts. There is the everyday 10% off anything in the store, period. The employee can purchase for friends, provided no reselling. Ok, number 2, online back of store ordering for friends and family, 15%, anything that is on the apple web site. However, sometimes when new items are out, and supplies are constrained, the employee site shows the item, but it is blacked out. This happened for the Nehalem mac pros for about 2 months. The ipad and iphone are never on this site. Ipod touches are for sale as are all ipods in general. Also all third party accessories are also 10% off. Oh and they are technically limited to 3 computers per year, technically. Finally personal purchases, one system per year, and as many apple accessories at 25% off, again back of store only online. They get bigger discounts on software, and applecare (33% off), and some other miscellaneous deals (like 50% off b&w in store promo). Now they don't technically check on every back of store purchases but employees don't want to get fired over this stuff.

Peace
Noushy
BTW (my MacBook Pro 17, core i7, SSD 512 cost me $3000 after employee discount :) )
and yes, you can return items, except CTO items.
 
My brother let me use his 25% discount to purchase a core i7 15MBP. The employee discount saved me nearly $800. What a great guy!! but then again, he lives with me rent free :) and I do the shopping/cooking. so I think thats fair
 
OK, here is your proof.

Items in Your Order

MBP 17/CTO $2,849.00 1 $2,849.00
Ships: 2 - 4 Business days
Delivers Apr 16 - Apr 22 by 2-3 Day Shipping
Part Number: Z0GP

With the following configuration:
• PROCESSOR 065-8568 2.66GHz Intel Core i7
• MEMORY 065-8569 4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRM - 2X2GB
• HARD DRIVE 065-8573 512GB Solid State Drive
• OPTICAL DRIVE 065-8575 SuperDrive 8X DL
• Display 065-8576 MBP 17" HR Glossy WS Display
• Apple Software - iWork 065-7672 No iWork preinstalled
• Apple Software - Final Cut Exp 065-7674 No Final Cut Express preinstd
• Apple Software - Aperture 065-7673 No Aperture Preinstalled
• Apple Software - Logic Express 065-7675 No Logic Express Preinstalled
• Apple Software - Filemaker 065-8307 No FileMaker Preinstalled
• Apple Software - MS Office 065-8198 No MSO preinstalled
• DVI Adapter 065-8580 No DVI Adapter
• VGA Adapter 065-8584 No VGA Adapter
• KEYBOARD AND DOCUMENTATION 065-9101 Keyboard/Users Guide
• COUNTRY KIT 065-8599 Country Kit


EXPEDITED SHIPPING CHARGE $18.00 1 $18.00
Part Number: SHIPPING20


Subtotal $2,867.00
Estimated Tax $172.02

Order Total $3,039.02

Hope you enjoyed it.
Peace,
Noushy
 
I too can verify the Friends and Family discount is available for the new MBP. I saved $450 on my new 17" i7 with 8gb of Ram. The only downfall is I have to wait for the darn thing. It should ship today or tomorrow though. I ordered it last week.
 
I'm glad I caught this thread.
my neighbor's son works at an apple retail store and she said she was going to receive a 15% discount to apple but had no use for it and offered it to me.

unknown to her, I'm actually a pc to mac convert waiting to happen!!!
I intend to buy the new 13" mbp along with the new iPhone coming out in June.

my questions are:
1) this 15 or 17% friends n family discount, is that in the form of a coupon or is this something that the apple employee needs to buy on his/her own and have it shipped to the friend? and he/she can only do this 3 times a yr with no limit?i.e can an employee buy 3 mbp's on 3 consecutive days and be done with the yearly quota?
in that case, how does the payment thing work?
i.e in my case, even though I know the neighbor very very well, I don't know the son that well and should I just give him my credit card to make the purchase?

2) starting next month, apple 'may' run the back to school special where they include an apple ipod touch for free with purchase of any mbp.
so, if the employee were to make a F&F purchase then, can he also get a touch for free?

3) is the iPhone included in F&F sale?
if yes, does it make sense to wait till June/July and order all 3 things at once, the mbp, the free touch and the iPhone, will this be possible?

any info would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
 
gordita said:
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my questions are:

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Can't you ask directly? Anyone that answers these questions could get themselves, or someone they know, into trouble for giving away tmi online.

You can't combine student and staff discount though, I know that. It's one or the other - work out which benefits you more, and if it's worth waiting for something that may or may not happen!

For instance the education discount on AppleCare, plus iPod, was a better deal than F&F when I got my MBP. but the deal's not on now, so...

And there are no discounts on iPhone or iPad, period
 
Now the natural followup

Does anyone who has access to the discount and live in the LA area want to be friends with me?
 
Wow...I need to find someone that works at an Apple store in Mass :)

Just bought a bunch of accessories too. I still need Applecare though.
 
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